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Understanding Economics as a Science
Marcel Boumans, John Davis
ISBN: 9780230218130
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
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Like other sciences, the study of economics has been shaped by rigorous arguments and debates that continue to influence economists today. In this fascinating introduction, Boumans and Davis consider the scientific nature of the methods, logic, and forms of explanation that underlie economics as a discipline.
Economic methodology was formally recognized as a field of economic inquiry in the 1980s, asn was heavily influenced by currents in the philosophy of science, particularly by the reaction against logical positivism as exemplified in the writings of Popper, Kuhn and Lakatos. The authors, bringing to bear a wealth of research and teaching experience, situate the field within the broader philosophy of science tradition. They explore the key refinements to, and extensions and departures from, the field in order to understand issues prevalent in the economic domain.
| ISBN | 023021813X | | Pages | 224 | | ISBN13 | 9780230218130
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Weight (grammes) | 406 | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 246 | | Publication date | 17 Mar 2010 | | Width (mm) | 171 | | DEWEY | 330.1 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Tertiary education |
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The Received View of Science Focus 1.1 Axiomatization Focus 1.2 Models Focus 1.3 Formalism Methodologies of Positive Economics Focus 2.1 Methodologies before Friedman Focus 2.2 Measurement Focus 2.3 Experiments Popper's Logic of Discovery Focus 3.1 The Duhem-Quine Thesis Focus 3.2 Popper's Situational Analysis Focus 3.3 Testing Kuhn and Lakatos Focus 4.1 Research Programs in Economics Focus 4.2 Scientific Revolutions in Economics? Focus 4.3 Facts The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Focus 5.1 Economics as a Discipline Focus 5.2 Case Study Research Focus 5.3 Feminist Philosophy of Science and Feminist Political Economy Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and Pluralism Focus 6.1 Analogy and Metaphor Focus 6.2 Paul Feyerabend Focus 6.3 Realism and Causal Explanation in Economics Value Judgements in Economics Focus 7.1 Logical Positivism and Ordinalist Utility Theory Focus 7.2 Neutral Science? Focus 7.3 Naturalistic Legitimation Glossary
'An extremely valuable volume which will certainly become an indispensable guide in introducing a student to the modern state of economic methodology.' - Ivan A. Boldyrev, Journal of Economic Methodology 'This is a very innovative, clear, and well-informed text in economic methodology that fills an important niche.' -- D. Wade Hands, Professor of Economics, University of Puget Sound and Co-editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology 'This is an excellent book that goes beyond being a textbook. It is a contribution in synthesizing issues in methodology of economics.' -- Sohrab Behdad, Professor and John E. Harris Chair in Economics, Denison University  Be the first to write a customer review
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